IMG

Football

Belgian Pro League says that MP & Silva was the 'only realistic bidder' for its rights

Badminton

India holds the key to high value of Asian badminton rights in MP & Silva deal

Multi-sport

América Móvil enjoys Olympic benefits but the big prize will come in 2016

Fox and ESPN explain why having the Olympic Games non-exclusively makes sense in Latin America

Skiing

EBU close to renewing deal for Austrian skiing rights

Volleyball

Pitch International lands volleyball World Championship in 2014

The IMG agency has acquired a minority stake in video technology company LiveClips, which delivers real-time highlights of sporting events to mobile devices.

Football

Belgian Pro League spoiled for choice ahead of key meeting to discuss media-rights offers

Tennis

Australian Open enjoys boom in media-rights value in two new Asian deals

Football

The IMG Productions division of the IMG agency has appointed Nick Moody as the head of its Premier League Productions operation for the production and distribution of international programming for the English Premier League, the top division of English football.

Rivals fear that IMG Media will emerge stronger from WME takeover

Handball

Al Jazeera beats rivals to land handball World Championships

Ufa Sports: We will bounce back after handball loss

Handball

Interview with Sandi Sola, treasurer and executive member of the International Handball Federation, on its new global deal with Al Jazeera covering the World Championships in 2015 and 2017.

Channel 4 has agreed a deal with IMG to bring the agency’s weekly magazine programme, Trans World Sport, back to the UK commercial broadcaster.

Tennis

Indian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has agreed a rights deal with the organisers of the Chennai Open, the country’s only men’s ATP World Tour tennis event, covering the next three editions of the tournament until 2016.

Tennis

IMG/Eurosport deal for LTA rights is a blow for IEC in Sports

Football

Infront guarantees the future income of Serie A but rights-fee growth is in the hands of clubs

Private equity company Forstmann Little has agreed a deal to sell the IMG agency to entertainment talent agency William Morris Endeavor and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, it was confirmed this afternoon.

Rugby Union

TF1 deal keeps IRB on course for 'richest World Cup ever' in 2015